Notes

In the first few months of 2024, I decided that I would like to try and walk 1000km in 2024. This included only "going out for a walk", so not just distance walked around at work, walking to the pub, lunchtime walks at work, etc. I tracked all the activities that I wanted to count and have plotted the results here. This ended up being a bit of a Britain farewell tour as at the beginning of 2025 I left the UK for a new adventure. In the end, I logged 1195.0km of walking/hiking in 2024!

Walks included significant sections of the following notable long distance paths:

• Shakespeare's Way section from Stratford-upon-Avon to Maidensgrove.
  • This was a group walk spread across 2024 with the Chiltern Young Walkers Ramblers group
  • Due to timings and other commitments, I missed the sections from Maidensgrove to Shakespeare's Globe in London
• The Ridgeway Nation Trail from Goring to Ivinghoe Beacon.
  • I had done the first half of the trail between Christmas 2023 and New Years 2024
  • Due to foot issues, the second half was left for 2024
  • This was a solo walk, the complete 138.5km was completed in two outings over 4 days
• Oxford Green Belt Way
  • This was largely a solo walk split over many days starting and ending at home
  • The entire route was completed, however I roughly doubled the distance by starting and ending at home!
• Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail
  • Some sections in the middle, more interesting section of the trail
  • This was done over two visits, one with Mary and one with my Mom & brother

Some short section of other long distance paths were also explored as a section of a shorter walk, these included:

• Offa's Dyke Path National Trail
• Beacons Way (Brecon)
• Cambrian Way
• White Horse Trail
• Pennine Way National Trail
• And probably others I have forgotten...

Notes on functionality:

• Hovering over a track on the map will give more information.
• Hovering over a track will also bring it to the front of the map and highlight it.
• Clicking a track will keep the popup visible.
• The heat map or tracks can be hidden in the layer control at the top right of the map.
• In the plot section, hovering over lines will give more information.

Map of Walks

Data Plots

Pictures

Info for Nerds

This section has a bit of info about how this page was made

• Data was tracked in MapMyRun as I had used this previously. Any tracking that allows Garmin TCX files to be exported is compatible.
• I wrote a python script to download all data from my MapMyRun account following the process here: Reddit: Download All TCX Running History from Mapmyrun
• I was too lazy to write my own TCX parser, so I used this TCXReader Module
• Maps are created using Folium
  • Some customisation was required to get track behaviour to work how I wanted it
  • This requires writing javascript to interact with the LeafletJS that folium generates
• Plots are generate using Bokeh
  • I had used bokeh quite a lot for work in the past
  • Functionality here is very basic, it would probably be possible to link between bokeh and leaflet on the JS side if I cared to figure it out.